AI For Creating Marketing Materials

[Arantor]

It’s a good tool

I had a first hand look this week at someone using it... shall we say under less than ideal circumstances.

My work had a 'Christmas quiz' where the questions were sourced from ChatGPT. More than one of the questions managed to have the answer in the question, and one of the questions about a fictional snowman managed to confuse which particular snowman it was 'thinking' of.

I've also had to wrangle with other developers writing code using Copilot and Gemini where what they've got out of it is for much older versions of Laravel than we were using (e.g. Laravel 5.5 versions of code, on a Laravel 10 codebase) which was... frustrating.

I haven't actually seen that many cases of it being a good tool, at least on its own, but as part of a larger workflow I could possibly see that... one day.

 

[Cedric]

I had a first hand look this week at someone using it... shall we say under less than ideal circumstances.

My work had a 'Christmas quiz' where the questions were sourced from ChatGPT. More than one of the questions managed to have the answer in the question, and one of the questions about a fictional snowman managed to confuse which particular snowman it was 'thinking' of.

I've also had to wrangle with other developers writing code using Copilot and Gemini where what they've got out of it is for much older versions of Laravel than we were using (e.g. Laravel 5.5 versions of code, on a Laravel 10 codebase) which was... frustrating.

I haven't actually seen that many cases of it being a good tool, at least on its own, but as part of a larger workflow I could possibly see that... one day.

I know. If it’s too complicated it confuses itself. I’ve had a couple of times where I just started cussing it out due to frustration. It does always stay friendly though. No matter what you say to it.

 

[Arantor]

I will be honest, this is one of the things that bothers me immensely about the collective interactions: the anthropomorphisation of the thing.

It doesn't 'stay friendly', because that would imply that it understood what friendly or unfriendly meant, or indeed that it actually understood anything actually said to it, rather than digesting the words down into statistical assessments to align it with statistical outcomes.

I know it's tempting to attribute dice to being friendly or unfriendly (especially the b-----d dice that my D&D group of many years ago used to talk about) but there's nothing there behind the curtain.

 

[Tyrsson]

I beta tested CoPilot. Was not impressed then, am not impressed now.